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My dad took off most of his vacation time for the year to act in Master of None. So I’m really relieved this all worked out. Tonight after we did Colbert together he said: “This is all fun and I liked acting in the show, but I really just did it so I could spend more time with you.” I almost instantly collapsed into tears at the thought of how much this person cares about me and took care of me and gave me everything to give me the amazing life I have. I felt like a total piece of garbage for all the times I haven’t visited my parents and told them I wanted to stay in New York cause I’d get bored in SC. I’m an incredibly lucky person and many of you are as well. Not to beat a dead horse here and sorry if this is cheesy or too sentimental but if your parents are good to you too, just go do something nice for them. I bet they care and love you more than you realize. I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to the Parents episode of our show. What’s strange is doing that episode and working with my parents has increased the quality of my relationship to my parents IN MY REAL LIFE. In reality, I haven’t always had the best, most open relationship with my parents because we are weirdly closed off emotionally sometimes. But we are getting better. And if you have something like that with your family - I urge you to work at it and get better because these are special people in your life and I get terrified when my dad tells me about friends of his, people close to his age, that are having serious health issues, etc. Enjoy and love these people while you can. Anyway, this show and my experiences with my parents while working on it have been very important in many ways and I thank for you the part you all have played in it.
OK so this is the best post in Tumblr history and Master of None is also the best so y’all should go watch it RIGHT NOW
If you’re a ‘nice guy’ to a girl up until you realize she doesn’t want to date you, then go on about how she’s a cold shrew that friendzoned you and how no girls date nice guys, like, nah mate, girls do date nice guys. You just aren’t a nice guy. You’re a passive aggressive beta with internalized misogyny and a serious victim complex.
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Similarities in The Cornetto trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End
What shows up in all three of these hilarious movies besides the two leads (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.) and director (Edgar Wright) since technicaklly this trilogy is not actually a trilogy?
The Cornettos: Where the trilogy got it’s name from. This ice cream made it into every film and many observed that the certain color of the cone’s label relate to the topic of the films. In Shaun of the Dead the label was red for zombies/blood, in Hot Fuzz the label was blue representing the police, and in The World’s End the label was green representing nature and the impact technology has on it.
The Fence Gag: Each film has the characters jump over a fence that is in their way in order to make a shortcut. However, each gag is slightly different. In Shaun of the Dead when Pegg attempts to jump over the fence part of it falls out from under him and he stands back up flustered. In Hot Fuzz Pegg jumps over several fences and does a flip over the last one and when Frost runs towards the fence he ends up running through it. In The World’s End Pegg runs right at the fence, goes to jump it, and the whole thing falls down and he lands flat on the ground.
Bar Fights: These are in each movie and each are very intense. While in Shaun of the Dead zombies are attacking the bar that the gang is held up in Hot Fuzz Pegg and Simon battle it out with a couple that owns the bar. In The World’s End the whole set up of the film is bar hopping so more than one fight breaks out at numerous bar locations. It doesn’t matter if they are fighting zombies, local neighbors, or weird alien people with blue stuff in them the fights are always entertaining to watch.
Messages: Despite having different stories and characters the films all touch on a variety of topics. They all analyze the fact that people consume a lot of media, the behavior habits of a group dynamic, and the problem with conformity. None of the films beat the audience over the head with these topics and they are there as an extra bonus to seeing entertainment.
Fast editing for menial moments: A character could be brushing their teeth, getting into a car, or getting ready in the morning and the editing will make the scenes appear to resemble fast paced action sequences. The shots are all up close and only last a few seconds in these sequences.
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A few doodles from my sketchbook. I’m planning on putting together a new sketchbook zine from these illustrations. - Molly
How We Treat Mental Illness Vs. How We Treat Physical Illness
Worked on this one recently and very happy how it came out.
Check the post on BuzzFeed here http://www.buzzfeed.com/kirstenking/have-you-tried-herbal-tea?utm_term=.kcrDGvRMy#.kxMBQ83dE
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What's the most interesting thing about tumblr for you linguistically?
It’s totally the tags.
Those tags where people write essays. I’m obsessed with those. They’re downright amazing linguistically!
I even proposed to do a research experiment on phrases, the juncture of syntax and semantics, and tumblr tags for my Computational Corpus Linguistics course. The teacher approved the project, but I ended up discarding it for a later time because of how difficult and involved the task would have been. There were too many problems to work out in the experiment and I realized I didn’t have enough time to do what I want.
The tags are intriguing for multiple reasons. They frankly make me run around like a chicken with his head cut off - except happier.
Syntax and Cognitive Science The tags show some very interesting things about phrasal structure. People divide up long sentences in tags during pauses. It’s unique “punctuation” and it says a lot for how people chunk thoughts, process them, and organize longer statements. It’s interesting where you see punctuation added or deleted; it helps you see cognitively how people are processing phrases.
Semantics The tags are full of very interesting expression techniques. One of the problems of written language has been that it lacks body language, which constitutes over half of our expression in conversation. It means that written language can be very easily misinterpreted for intent (think of how many texts get misinterpreted). But tumblrites and other social media savvy people have compensated and made written language HUGELY expressive. You see it in the tags. You see people use unique punctuation effects like deleting spaces, intentionally misspelling words, adding capitalization, and much more. There are emoticons, keyboard smashes, explosions of exclamation marks, and so many beautiful ways of expressing emotion. And people use lots of words in fascinating ways to get their thoughts across. It’s endless.
Diachronic Linguistics Historical linguistics is really cool. It’s about language change. Internet speech in tumblr has the latest, newest words and word units out there. You see so much beautiful language change happening. It’s how “Rickrolled” became a verb and “smol” grew its own set of recognized connotations. Word meanings change, take on new meanings, are filled with so much amazing sociolinguistic context. Abbreviations are made for fandom content. Abbreviations eventually become treated like real words, and then they take on new suffixes and become verbs and adjectives and nouns (”I lol’ed”). There are certain phonotactic paradigms English speakers subconsciously follow for creating new shipping names; I’ve even seen a linguistics paper on that topic. People are able to understand new terms they’ve never seen before; I’ve never heard of “Ruffheat,” but if someone said that to me, I’d know right away they’re talking about a Ruffnut x Heather ship. If someone told me “Hiccaang,” somehow I’d be able to figure out they’re talking about some Aang x Hiccup crack ship. We can just do that automatically because we’ve built our own compounding systems! And not only do we do that, but language changes SO FREAKISHLY RAPIDLY on tumblr it’s constant excitement.
Sociolinguistics Language varies based upon different groups we are a part of, and tumblr is full of many communities. Fandom communities, the science side of tumblr, the social justice community, and more are all out there. Each group has its own diction, vocabulary, and more. It’s also amazing how this collides with the fact that tumblr is global; the conversations arising aren’t just from native English speakers, but individuals whose first language might be Malay, Khmer, German, Korean, Japanese, or Finnish.
So yeah. And where you see all this amazingness the most is in the tags.
Believe me, I tag browse a lot because the content there is GOLD. Pure GOLD.
Someday I do hope to take my tumblr experiences and conduct a legitimate linguistics research study. It can teach us a lot about contemporary English, internet English, and how it’s used around the globe.inguistic
Language is awesome.
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